The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, & the Uses of the Past (1797-1896)Roderick Beaton, David Ricks Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2009 - 270 pages This book brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the contribution of characteristically 19th-century European modes of thought to the 'making' of Greece as a modern nation. Closely linked to nationalism is romanticism, which exercised its formative role through imaginative literature. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
the view from the early twentyfirst century | 19 |
Italy and Greece compared | 43 |
Greek Western perspectives | 51 |
Philhellenism | 65 |
religion the nation state | 79 |
Revisiting religion and nationalism in nineteenthcentury Greece | 95 |
the emergence of a national ideal in | 109 |
Class and national identities in the Ionian Islands under British rule | 161 |
Modern Greek and some | 177 |
The Language Question and the Diaspora | 189 |
canonizing Dionysios Solomos | 201 |
0 Leandros and the politics of Romanticism | 211 |
poetry and prose fiction in the national | 225 |
the writing subject in Greek | 239 |
Alexandros Papadiamantis and Orthodox | 249 |
the Romantic redefinition | 123 |
competing Greek perspectives | 137 |
politics society in the Ionian Islands | 149 |
Afterword | 259 |
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